1 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:04,630 All right, so let's talk about creating the IPTV thumbnail or the cover photo. 2 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:07,140 How do you actually format that to get it perfectly? 3 00:00:07,170 --> 00:00:15,120 Because while you look at the recommended dimensions for an IPTV cover photo, it's 420 by 650 for red 4 00:00:15,270 --> 00:00:15,990 pixel wise. 5 00:00:16,020 --> 00:00:16,170 Right. 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:21,130 So if you wanted to create that, what you do is you go into a free software like Canada can dot coms 7 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:24,840 amphorae, you'll create a design once you obviously sign up for an account. 8 00:00:24,890 --> 00:00:27,420 You go custom dimensions and literally just type that in. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:27,550 Right. 10 00:00:27,630 --> 00:00:28,470 So for Tony. 11 00:00:29,650 --> 00:00:31,970 I was the other one. 12 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:34,220 Six fifty four or six fifty four. 13 00:00:34,410 --> 00:00:35,240 And create your design. 14 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:38,950 What that's gonna do is it's going to come up with the exact dimensions there so you can upload a photo 15 00:00:38,950 --> 00:00:43,180 into their drag and drop your photo and then stretch it to the size and then download it. 16 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:43,370 Right. 17 00:00:43,390 --> 00:00:46,270 So let's just for example, let's say that we wanted to create this one. 18 00:00:46,270 --> 00:00:46,510 Right. 19 00:00:47,010 --> 00:00:47,500 Boom. 20 00:00:49,310 --> 00:00:49,820 Boom. 21 00:00:50,150 --> 00:00:50,360 Right. 22 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,330 And like, let's assume that that looked good. 23 00:00:52,370 --> 00:00:54,690 I'm just kind of showing you how would you go about doing that? 24 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:58,580 And you download it and then, bam, you'd have that actual photo in the actual size with the exact 25 00:00:58,580 --> 00:01:02,600 partial pixel ratio that they recommend for the dimensions, the A.E cover photo. 26 00:01:02,930 --> 00:01:04,220 The issue with that. 27 00:01:04,250 --> 00:01:04,470 OK. 28 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:05,720 And you can do that if you want. 29 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:07,670 The issue with that is stretching. 30 00:01:07,670 --> 00:01:10,770 Your photo is going to make it look pixilate and it's not going to look very good at all. 31 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,900 OK, on top of that, the issue with that, No. 32 00:01:13,910 --> 00:01:16,100 One is if you actually go back to your feet. 33 00:01:16,190 --> 00:01:16,440 Rep. 34 00:01:16,970 --> 00:01:18,260 That might look good. 35 00:01:18,350 --> 00:01:21,200 See how they're all formatted like this on TV like. 36 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:23,480 Let me show an example, one that I've done in the past. 37 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,380 Like this one right here. 38 00:01:24,410 --> 00:01:24,630 Right. 39 00:01:24,710 --> 00:01:25,540 Or this wishbone. 40 00:01:25,570 --> 00:01:25,740 Right. 41 00:01:26,180 --> 00:01:29,000 Those are examples of ones that I've stretched kind of like that. 42 00:01:29,090 --> 00:01:30,710 Or this one right here or this right here. 43 00:01:31,010 --> 00:01:36,980 They look great right here in the TV feed because I've actually used the exact pixel ratio that bits 44 00:01:36,980 --> 00:01:37,740 with IPTV. 45 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:37,950 Right. 46 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,490 The issue with doing something like that is if you go back to the post feed, because a lot of people 47 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:48,560 aren't going to be watching your ITV TV's, you know, within IJI TV, they're going to either be watching 48 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,550 it from the post feed right here, which is your normal Instagram feed, because the same ones post 49 00:01:52,610 --> 00:01:58,310 post to your actual post feed or they're going to be watching it in a different place from your HDTV 50 00:01:58,310 --> 00:02:02,000 right here or, you know, as suggested on the platform in another place. 51 00:02:02,210 --> 00:02:05,240 And so they're not necessarily always going to see this long thumbnail. 52 00:02:05,270 --> 00:02:05,480 Right. 53 00:02:05,510 --> 00:02:08,810 They might only see the square thumbnail and they might you might not. 54 00:02:09,020 --> 00:02:14,390 If you have wording in the title, it might not necessarily be shown in that actual part of the feet. 55 00:02:14,470 --> 00:02:14,610 Right. 56 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:17,260 The whole reason I'm trying to say that is if you know you. 57 00:02:17,290 --> 00:02:17,670 Yes. 58 00:02:17,810 --> 00:02:23,180 While they suggest that's the actual pixel ratio that's perfect for the TV, you have to keep in mind 59 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:28,640 that you're your IPTV thumbnail is also going to be shown in a number of other places on Instagram. 60 00:02:28,650 --> 00:02:32,850 So you want it formatted for all of them, not just within IPTV? 61 00:02:33,260 --> 00:02:34,070 That's my opinion. 62 00:02:34,370 --> 00:02:35,210 That's how I approach it. 63 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,800 So I do is I do something like this. 64 00:02:37,820 --> 00:02:38,030 Right. 65 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:43,430 So I've created like just with with the actual thumbnail dimensions, with the IPTV thumbnail dimensions 66 00:02:43,430 --> 00:02:43,850 right here. 67 00:02:44,180 --> 00:02:47,870 And then what I do is I literally format it for the middle of that dimension. 68 00:02:47,930 --> 00:02:48,110 Right. 69 00:02:48,140 --> 00:02:51,280 So that looks pretty good with the background design in A.E. 70 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:51,520 Right. 71 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,880 So if you go to A.E, like they all have like a background design and it still has a thumbnail there, 72 00:02:55,970 --> 00:02:58,970 they're pretty, you know, looks pretty decent on most of them. 73 00:02:59,030 --> 00:02:59,230 Right. 74 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:01,500 And you can still read exactly what's in the thumbnail. 75 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:02,360 So it looks pretty good. 76 00:03:02,690 --> 00:03:04,400 And there's still like a design in the background. 77 00:03:04,450 --> 00:03:07,010 But if you go to posts, all those are still the same. 78 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:08,030 Right, and still read them. 79 00:03:08,030 --> 00:03:10,820 You can still see them right from the inside of the post thing. 80 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,560 So that's how I approach it. 81 00:03:12,590 --> 00:03:16,430 Now, if I were going to upload a new thumbnail here, what I'd literally do is take my thumbnail from 82 00:03:16,430 --> 00:03:18,620 YouTube because obviously I repurpose all my content. 83 00:03:18,650 --> 00:03:21,350 If you don't have a thumbnail, then and I don't have any right here. 84 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:26,720 But let's assume like this for this Instagram course thumbnail is the actual one that I want to post 85 00:03:26,730 --> 00:03:27,170 Taiji. 86 00:03:27,470 --> 00:03:30,160 So let's go right here at Centera and Bam! 87 00:03:30,470 --> 00:03:33,440 Then it's literally center centered in this little center thing right here. 88 00:03:33,650 --> 00:03:35,360 It looks good on all the different things. 89 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:41,420 So it looks when my G TV on my feed, it looks good in the posting and it looks good on TV in the actual 90 00:03:41,420 --> 00:03:42,630 iji TV interface. 91 00:03:42,650 --> 00:03:47,730 So if people see it there in that, if they're watching it from like they're there at our phone, it's 92 00:03:47,730 --> 00:03:48,800 going to look just as good as well. 93 00:03:48,830 --> 00:03:52,100 So don't just keep that in mind when you actually format this. 94 00:03:52,130 --> 00:03:56,030 You don't just want to do it for your A.E some now photo. 95 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,460 You want to do it for everywhere on Instagram. 96 00:03:58,490 --> 00:03:58,740 OK. 97 00:03:59,210 --> 00:04:02,630 Now, once you actually do that, you can do a vertical one like me and kind of just center it in the 98 00:04:02,630 --> 00:04:03,560 middle if you want to do that. 99 00:04:03,650 --> 00:04:06,460 Or you can actually just do it on Instagram for the HDTV. 100 00:04:06,890 --> 00:04:08,540 Like they recommend those actual dimensions. 101 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:10,460 Like I showed you formatting that in the beginning. 102 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:12,350 Whatever you want to do, it's not really going to matter. 103 00:04:12,410 --> 00:04:14,210 I just do what my preference is to them. 104 00:04:14,210 --> 00:04:16,970 Once I actually did that and I'd simply upload that photo. 105 00:04:17,330 --> 00:04:19,820 And let me actually go back to camp and download it to show you. 106 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,450 Negatively upload that photo and then obviously publish that in Instagram. 107 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:30,670 So let's download this photo and then you'll see it start downloading from Canada and then once it's 108 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:36,340 finally done, I will come over and edit and there it pops up in my downloads and bam, I can finally 109 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:36,940 upload that. 110 00:04:36,940 --> 00:04:38,260 And you see it kind of look stretched. 111 00:04:38,290 --> 00:04:42,270 But the middle of it is pretty much what people are going to see, not just in iji TV. 112 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:47,370 So it still looks good, but also in my actual post feed and a number of other places that would ship 113 00:04:47,410 --> 00:04:49,720 post and bam, we're done.